On looking as stylish as possible while writing a dissertation in the woods with a poodle and some scientists

Need a change of hairstyle, and considering a return to one of the old standbies: bangs or ombré. Bangs have the advantages of, I could stil...

In defense of mannequins

As I've mentioned on this blog before, it's eerie, if you stop and think about it, that in this day and age, there's a professio...

Forage for your porridge

I can't seem to get that "food" issue of the New Yorker our of my head. Growing one's own tomatoes on Cape Cod. Shucking ...

Polar opposites for the holidays

Maybe it's that I saw the "Human Fund" episode of "Seinfeld" in my formative years, but I've never fully underst...

Country dog

Bisou has been cooed at in Uniqlo, shied away from miniature dachshunds at a dog run, and very nearly entered a shop that makes its own mozz...

"[S]he could not even get a job that did not pay"

Articles advising college seniors and recent grads not to go to humanities grad school lose me when, if they present alternatives at all (an...

Checking one's privilege at the first-class kiosk

Katie Roiphe has discovered , recently, it seems, that the Internet is not the utopia of kindness and goodwill she might have hoped for. On ...